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The Guilty River

by: Wilkie Collins

Publication date: 2010-04-27

Usage: Public Domain

Topics: librivox, audiobook, literature, fiction, novels, Victorian

Language: English

Item Size: 674.9M

LibriVox recording of The Guilty River by Wilkie Collins. After his father’s death Gerard Roylake returns from Germany to take up his inheritance at Trimley Deen. On one evening he meets his childhood friend, Cristel Toller. They fall in love, but there is a crux. A deaf man, called The Lodger is obsessed with Cristel. He invites Gerard to tea with evil intentions… and Gerard accepts the invitation. The book is written in the first person and tells the story from Gerard's point of view. (Summary by Diana Majlinger) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org. Download M4B (123MB)

Addeddate: 2010-04-27 11:14:10

Boxid: OL100020515

Call number: 4107

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Reviewer: librivoxbooks - April 12, 2023
Subject: @Thirzina

Feel free to make a solo version of this yourself, or purchase a professionally made one elsewhere if one even exists. :) "Free" and "volunteer" mean that not everyone will enjoy all readers. Is it better to have only professional-grade readers, or to have audiobooks that no publisher will produce because it's not economically viable?

Reviewer: Thirzina - April 12, 2023
Subject: What were they thinking

Another motley set of dreadful readers ruining a good book

Reviewer: benefitsingers - - August 16, 2010
Subject: Just ok

This is the third Wilkie Collins novel I have listened to. It was very different from The Woman and White and the Mystery in Venice stories. I can't say I loved the book, but I cannot say I hated it either, thus my rating of a 3. The narration was also just okay. Not terrible but not great either. The story itself is rather short so if you are a die hard Wilkie Collins fan then it would be okay and really was the only reason I stayed with it until the end. A word of caution to narrators overacting with voice work is really not necessary. If you are not a native British speaker please do not try to do a British accent. One narrator did this and was really atrocious.

Reviewer: mikezane - - May 7, 2010
Subject: Pretty good book

This is a neat boy meets girl story with a wicked stranger twist to it. It is not your usual 'mystery' but there are plenty of intense scenes in it.
One word of note - some of the chapters have a lot of background noise, and I spent a lot of time adjusting my equalizer and my volume control. There was no consistency - the issues were as varied as the readers.
Overall, the story is good, but the reading does detract from it a bit.

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